If you’ve logged in to the PlayStation Network in the past couple of hours, you may have noticed that a new firmware update has went live.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it adds anything nifty as the PlayStation Blog is just calling it “a minor update that adds a security patch.” It’ll be interesting to see if this plugs any holes that hackers have created in the PS3’s armor.
Update: Word is reaching us that the encryption key for the new firmware is already out there and available to wily pirates. Back to the drawing board it seems.
Source: US PlayStation Blog
Thanks to user ‘m61726b’ for the tip.
E8_BALL_
alot a hack sites are already huffing & panting re this lol
hopefully keep them out of mischief for a while (wish it would indefinitely)
XisTG
The never-ending battle continues!
asoccer
3.57a-z. Just wait for it.
m61726b
Nope, still idiots out there. Namely ‘David9602’, your an ar$e. Hacked game of MW2.
Serebii.Net
There was a 15th Presteiged guy on Blavk Ops last night, fully levelled.
I looknay his
Combat record and he had only 40 kills and 30 deaths.. Damn hackers :P
E8_BALL_
experienced my 1st modded mw2 room l.night
ended up on a roof with 5 or so others, ruined the match
iAvernus
Don’t know what they did, but nothing can stop these hackers now. The system is completely opened up, and there’s no going back, sorry to say. Some good news though, hackers that hacked Black Ops to reach 15th prestige and 99999999 cod points, are getting their consoles perma banned. A step in the right direction there. Good job Treyarch.
Erroneus
Concole and PSN bans is the only way forward to scare these people. I know somebody properly will figure out to unlock a banned console, but it will scare people, plus getting their PSN account deleted, would scare a lot :D
minerwilly
Great news
m61726b
What worries more than CoD is if the hackers get to a exclusive title such as Killzone 3.
Grey_Ghost13
Hopefully Guerilla will have some inbuilt security into the game and the servers to prevent this….pretty please
Erroneus
This one kills “homebrew” and they updated a lot, which requires new keys and changed how some of the content are decrypted.
Sadly lvl1, lvl2 and isoldr keys has already been found now, so unless Sony has something hidden up their sleeve in this firmware, they are pretty much back to start again.
crazyoaktree
I still don’t understand why some people would want to hack games. Its only the ones that can’t get to certain levels in a game/die alot that do this. I think that you should just play the game and not cheat/hack it so you can unlock everything.
NotoriousGTT
What a ridiculous comment. Do you know ANY hackers to back up your sweeping generalisation that they cant get past certain parts of a game? Hacking a console takes months of hard work and even once somebody has posted how to hack it online it still takes a smarter-than-the-average-bear type person to do it.
The Mysterious Phantom Bear
People need to make a clear distinction between hacking for piracy and hacking for homebrew.
If hacking for homebrew didn’t have the knock on effect of leaving the gates wide open for pirates I’d be all for it but as someone who doesn’t hold that level of interest all hacking does for me is fill the lobbies of games I play for recreation and relaxation with cheating glitching reptiles who have an inferiority complex and problems developing relationships with the opposite sex.
Oh well, at least they’re leet.
Grey_Ghost13
“People need to make a clear distinction between hacking for piracy and hacking for homebrew.”
And hacking to be a right CUNT online and destroy the multiplayer aspect of games!
iAvernus
How many people actually will hack it for homebrew? Maybe 10 in 100! That’s being generous. People hack it to do sh!t on MP games, and piracy…plain and simple.
jayjay119
I think with a combination of Sony and developer co-operation, they could seal a big part of this security hole. I;m not surprised the PS3 got hacked, it inevitably happens to every console, the PS3 seemingly has an advantage though as it’s a software hack that can be regularly regulated via firmware, which may be what this is. Which I can imagine is much easier for Sony and developers to deal with than the 360’s hack which is hardware based.